01c. 1963 ADPeople who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.Jeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
02c. 1963 ADThe free market is not a system. It is not a policy dictated by anyone in particular. It is not something that Washington implements. It does not exist in any legislation, law, bill, regulation, or book. It is what you get when people act on their own, entirely without central direction, and with their own property, and within human associations of their own creation and in their own interest. It is the beauty that emerges in absence of control.Jeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
03c. 1963 ADHere's something I still can't get over. Amazes and thrills me every time. I'm sitting here and want a certain book. So I search, click, and then I have the book. Every time, my heart does a little leap of joy. What a beautiful world the market is making.Jeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
04c. 1963 ADGovernment is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract.Jeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
06c. 1963 ADThe goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.Jeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
07c. 1963 ADA person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to support bad schools” or “all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.Jeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
08c. 1963 AD80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music.Jeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
09c. 1963 ADBut now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the state can be the right means to help those who are poor or living at the margins of society. The state is their enemy, as it is for everyone else.Jeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
10c. 1963 ADThe problems in every country are the same. Bureaucracy is strangling innovation. Overgrown political sectors are sucking away resources that could otherwise lead to growth. Regulations and taxes are punishing innovation. Public sector services are breaking down and no longer serving people's needs. Laws and prevailing legislation control a world that no longer exists. People who go into politics to change the system end up getting co-opted by it. Workers feel trapped and fear a lack out options outside the status quo. In every case, it comes down to the great evil of our time and all times: government itself. There is no place on earth in which more liberty and less or no government would not be welcome and bring about real progress.Jeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
11c. 1963 ADBeautiful, seamless upgrade from Twitter today, making functionality smoother and cooler. We didn't have to lobby, didn't have to beg, didn't have to elect a new leader, didn't have to push or protest. Progress is built in to the structure of the mechanism itself: this company exists to please you and me. This is a far better system than any political system on earth.Jeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
12c. 1963 ADWe really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.Jeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
13c. 1963 ADThe government never minds having more power, and is always prepared to paper over the problems it creates. An economy not bludgeoned by powerful elites is the ideal we should seek, even if it has a name that is wildly unpopular: capitalismJeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
14c. 1963 ADThe market economy is delivering miracles by the minute and yet we hardly notice or care; worse, we denounce the realization of this dream of all of history, this coming of heaven on earth and call it decadent and dangerous.Jeffrey Tucker / quote ↗
